Joan Grinther, who won four multi-million dollar lottery tickets and was called “the luckiest woman in the world,” had her luck called into question after it was discovered she has a statistics PhD from Stanford University. Grinther has never been formally charged with any wrongdoing, but the odds of her many winnings were calculated at one in eighteen septillion. To put this in perspective, wrote Nathaniel Rich in Harper’s, there are only one septillion stars in the universe, and one septillion grains of sand on Earth.
